Japanese Almanac computes the traditional Japanese calendar from astronomical data.

It is an independent site. All values are computed; rokuyō and similar notations are traditional and have no scientific basis.

Computed with Skyfield (MIT) and JPL DE421; cross-checked with NAOJ.

How this site works

Once a day an automated job downloads the latest public data from the sources listed below, checks it and rebuilds these static pages. Nothing is invented or estimated by us: every number comes from a cited source.

Data sources

• JPL planetary ephemeris DE421 (NASA/JPL) — U.S. government work
• Skyfield (Brandon Rhodes) — MIT licence
• National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Calendar Office (cross-check of dates only; nothing reproduced) — reference only

Languages

The interface is available in 14 languages and was translated by hand. Where free text from a source is translated, it is done by offline machine translation and labelled as such.

Independence

Independent site, not affiliated with the data providers named here. For information only. Figures are reproduced from the cited sources, may be delayed or contain errors, and are not advice of any kind. Always check the original source.

Using the data

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Image credits

Image: Utagawa Hiroshige (Rijksmuseum) · CC0